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# Overview

The news intelligence infrastructure for institutions and AI agents.

Every article that moves a market is read, analyzed, and structured before it reaches you. Importance, event type, and the entities involved, each with how the event bears on it, arrive already attached, in English first and in 15 more languages shortly after. One API call renders it inside the screen where trading happens.

<a href="https://docs.flash.im/docs/" class="button primary" data-icon="book">Read the API docs</a> <a href="https://docs.flash.im/whitepaper/" class="button secondary" data-icon="file-lines">White Paper</a> <a href="https://app.flash.im/terminal" class="button secondary" data-icon="terminal">Open Terminal</a> <a href="https://app.flash.im/newsroom" class="button secondary" data-icon="newspaper">Open Newsroom</a>

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<table data-card-size="large" data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><h2>49</h2></td><td><strong>Trusted sources</strong></td><td>7 primary institutional sources and 42 major outlets, read in real time.</td></tr><tr><td><h2>16</h2></td><td><strong>Languages</strong></td><td>Every story published in English first, then in 15 more languages, license-free in all of them.</td></tr><tr><td><h2>18</h2></td><td><strong>Event types</strong></td><td>One fixed classification behind every judgment.</td></tr><tr><td><h2>10,000+</h2></td><td><strong>Covers</strong></td><td>Publication-grade cover images across 4,000 entities.</td></tr></tbody></table>

<h2 align="center">What makes this different</h2>

<p align="center">Until now, putting news on a platform meant running a newsroom you never signed up for. FLASH replaces that entire pipeline.</p>

<table data-card-size="large" data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><h4><i class="fa-bolt" style="color:$primary;">:bolt:</i></h4></td><td><h4>One request, the right news</h4></td><td>Nothing to design on your side: send what your page already holds (a name, a ticker, a contract question) as-is, and the news that belongs there comes back.</td></tr><tr><td><h4><i class="fa-brain" style="color:$primary;">:brain:</i></h4></td><td><h4>Analysis arrives done</h4></td><td>Every item carries <code>impact</code>, <code>eventType</code>, <code>impactScore</code>, and <code>entities</code> with their sentiment. Nothing to infer.</td></tr><tr><td><h4><i class="fa-scale-balanced" style="color:$primary;">:scale-balanced:</i></h4></td><td><h4>License-free</h4></td><td>Every story is an original work synthesized from what outlets and institutions publish, with the source credited in every item. Publish it on your platform freely.</td></tr><tr><td><h4><i class="fa-language" style="color:$primary;">:language:</i></h4></td><td><h4>16 languages, one integration</h4></td><td>The same item ships in English plus 15 translations. Every translation is a rendition of FLASH's own text, so the license-free position carries into all 16.</td></tr></tbody></table>

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## Your first call, in minutes

Sign in once with Google and the key is issued immediately. No approval step, no sales call. API access will be part of the paid plans (free during the beta test period).

No need to store or classify anything in-house. A single API request returns fully processed news that you can render on any page, instantly.

<a href="https://app.flash.im/terminal" class="button primary" data-icon="key">Get an API key</a> <a href="https://docs.flash.im/docs/quick-start" class="button secondary" data-icon="rocket-launch">Quick Start</a>
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#### Get your key

Open Terminal, click **Get API**, sign in with Google.
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#### Make your first request

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{% tab title="cURL" %}
{% code overflow="wrap" %}

```bash
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_..." \
  "https://api.flash.im/v1/news?category=crypto&lang=en&limit=5"
```

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{% tab title="JavaScript" %}
{% code overflow="wrap" %}

```javascript
const res = await fetch(
  "https://api.flash.im/v1/news?category=crypto&lang=en&limit=5",
  { headers: { "Authorization": "Bearer sk_live_..." } }
);

const { items } = await res.json();
```

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{% code overflow="wrap" %}

```python
import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://api.flash.im/v1/news",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer sk_live_..."},
    params={"category": "crypto", "lang": "en", "limit": 5},
)

items = res.json()["items"]
```

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#### Read the judgment

The analysis is already on the item.

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```json
{
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "n_8f3k2p",
      "headline": "Spot bitcoin ETFs snap ten-day slide with $221M inflow",
      "impact": 4,
      "eventType": "market-move",
      "impactScore": 76,
      "entities": [
        { "name": "Bitcoin", "aliases": ["BTC"], "ticker": "BTC", "entitySentiment": "Positive" }
      ],
      "source": { "name": "Reuters" },
      "relatedCount": 13,
      "lang": "en"
    }
  ]
}
```

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## Every event arrives as one card, already judged

Content, intelligence, and source join in a single item. Every card carries its judgment: `impact` rates how much the event matters on a 2 to 5 scale, and each entity carries its own sentiment, because one event can lift one party and hurt another.

<a href="https://docs.flash.im/docs/api-reference/news-item-fields" class="button primary" data-icon="table-list">News Item Fields</a>
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<h2 align="center">Who it's for</h2>

<table data-card-size="large" data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><h4><i class="fa-arrow-right-arrow-left" style="color:$primary;">:arrow-right-arrow-left:</i></h4></td><td><h4>Exchanges</h4></td><td>A news tab on the full stream, "why this price moved" context beside the chart, and the hourly Top 10 on the home screen.</td></tr><tr><td><h4><i class="fa-chart-pie" style="color:$primary;">:chart-pie:</i></h4></td><td><h4>Prediction markets</h4></td><td>Pass the contract question as-is; the news that grounds the bet renders beside it, and freezes into the contract's record at close.</td></tr><tr><td><h4><i class="fa-database" style="color:$primary;">:database:</i></h4></td><td><h4>Data providers</h4></td><td>Every asset detail page carries its own news section, joined on entities so a ticker and a full name resolve to the same subject.</td></tr><tr><td><h4><i class="fa-robot" style="color:$primary;">:robot:</i></h4></td><td><h4>AI agents</h4></td><td>A question is a sample; a market is a stream. Agents call the same endpoints and get the same judgment everyone else sees.</td></tr></tbody></table>

<h2 align="center">Start where it suits you</h2>

<table data-card-size="large" data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th></th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><h4><i class="fa-rocket-launch" style="color:$primary;">:rocket-launch:</i></h4></td><td><h4>Start building</h4></td><td>Get a key with one sign-in and make your first call in minutes.</td><td><a href="https://docs.flash.im/docs/quick-start" class="button secondary">Quick Start</a></td></tr><tr><td><h4><i class="fa-file-lines" style="color:$primary;">:file-lines:</i></h4></td><td><h4>Understand the layer</h4></td><td>The full thesis: the problem, how it is built, what it covers, and where it is going.</td><td><a href="https://docs.flash.im/whitepaper/" class="button secondary">White Paper</a></td></tr></tbody></table>